Benedikt Partenheimer

Wir leben nicht nur in Zeiten rasenden, aufregenden Wandels, wir leben auch mitten in den Zeiten des Anthropozän. Umwelt und Klima verändern sich im Zuge des vom Menschen betriebenen Turbokapitalismus. Der enge Zusammenhang und das zunehmende Ungleichgewicht zwischen Mensch und Erde wird in Benedikt Partenheimers Werken sinnlich wie inhaltlich nachvollziehbar. Fotografien von faszinierender wie bedrückender Eleganz zeigen ökologische und kulturelle Transformationsprozesse. Was diese Aufnahmen so bestechend erscheinen lässt, ist die menschliche Einflussgröße: malerischer Dunst von Luftverschmutzung über Stadtpanoramen, Berge spiegeln sich ambivalent in geschmolzenem Gletscherwasser. Der Preis der Schönheit ist jedem Bild eingeschrieben. Das macht Partenheimers Werk ästhetisch spannend, aber vor allem auch existenziell wichtig und politisch brisant.

Covers all the fundamental skills required for location photography when using Digital, 35mm SLR and medium format cameras working with both existing light sources and introduced light. Through a series of practical exercises the student photographer is shown the importance of image design, communication of content and the essential techniques required for competent and consistent images capture and creation. The basic essentials, from exposure, to framing the image and how to work with light and contrast are explained in detail. New in this edition are chapters covering 'Sensitivity and Image Capture' and 'Filters'. Assignments are provided for genres such as landscape, environmental portraiture and the photographic essay. Illustrated throughout with student and author work, including a new 8-page colour plate section, Location Photography is an inspirational guide as well as a structured learning tool for mastering the essential techniques. Mark Galer lectures in photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia - the leading photography course in the southern hemisphere. He is also co-writer and teacher on their new online photography courses. He has lectured in photography both in the UK and Australia and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial. He is also author of 'Photography Foundations for Art and Design', and co-author of 'Digital Imaging: Essential Skills' and 'Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills' also published by Focal Press. Email: [email protected]

It is clear that our present economic system is unsustainable. Never-ending exponential industrial growth on a finite planet is a logical absurdity. We are already using resources at a rate which it would take 1.6 planet earths to replace. We are already undermining the ecological systems which support all of life. Our present economic system has led to an unbelievable degree of economic inequality. To maintain this inequality, both between nations and within nations, military force is used, and democracy is replaced by oligarchy. The future of human civilization is endangered both by the threat of thermonuclear war and by the threat of catastrophic climate change; and both of the twin threats are results of our present economic system. This book documents in detail the serious economic problems of today's world, and it also proposes sustainable solutions.

Artwork by Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation. Edited by Karen Young. Text by Eve Sussman. Photography by Bobby Neel Adams, Benedikt Partenheimer. Contributions by Claudia de Serpa Soares.

"As digital technologies continue to impact photography, there are those image-makers who rise above the fray to produce compelling work. Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century features 120 of the latest, greatest, and newly up-and-coming artists in a luscious compendium, each showcased in a four-page spread, with texts by sixteen top curators and theorists, and a glossary of important terms. More than a coffee-table book, Photo Art reads like an international art fair between covers."--Publisher's website.